The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.
JOSEPH STALINHe who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.
More Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
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To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
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Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There’s only one way to shut them up – cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me one!
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Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
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Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.
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The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!
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American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.
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Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.
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Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
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We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
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